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Amazing Pickling Facts

Pickling Facts:

• 26 Billion pounds of pickles are produced each year, coming out to approximately 9 pounds of pickles per person.
• Over half of the cucumbers grown in the U.S. are turned into pickles.
  
• Amerigo Vespucci, the man for whom American was named, was a pickle merchant before he became an explorer.
  
• The art of pickling has been used to preserve foods for nearly 5,000 years.
  
• The founder of Heinz was quite a business pioneer.  In 1900, he even erected the very first electric sign in New York, a giant 40-foot pickle!
  
• Any food can be pickled, but the word “pickle” refers to a cucumber which has been pickled.  It is also possible to pickle fruits and meats, such as peaches, pears, or fish.
  
• Beatles founder, John Lennon’s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles
  
• The number 57 that you find on a Heniz ketchup bottle represents the variety of types of pickles they once had.